Re: "/bin/bash: permission denied" on WinXP 2003 x64 solved (privilege problem)

[Andrew DeFaria <Andrew at DeFaria dot com>]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug 13 04:53, Brian Kasper wrote:
> > Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > > As it turns out, all my problems were caused by the fact that the
> > > > sshd_server user being created by the ssh-host-config script was not
> > > > being given all the required privileges.
> > > This is weird. The ssh-host-config script usually makes sure that
> > > the sshd_server user got all required privileges. See the script
> > > at line 517ff.
> > I'm not at work right now, and unfortunately I can't access the gmane
> > news server from work, but I'll check out the script. I agree it's
> > weird; perhaps it's due to either the 64-bitness of the OS, or the fact
> > that the OS is (as far as I know) based on the server version of Windows
> > XP ....
>
> I just re-read your OP. There's a misunderstanding here. Windows XP is
> NT kernel version 5.1. Windows 2003 Server (*not* XP 2003 Server) is
> NT kernel version 5.2. Windows 2003 Server is a newer OS than XP, and
> has a newer kernel, with different features and behaviour than the
> XP kernel.
>
> Windows 2003 Server x64, as well as the client OS XP x64 are both based
> on the 5.2 kernel. Thus, XP x64 is more similar to 2003 Server than to
> it's 32 bit XP counterpart.
>
> The user privilege handling of the 5.2 kernel differs in two points
> from the handling in XP. None of these differences should account for
> what you observed. Just FYI, I set up ssh servers on 2003 32 and 64
> bit, as well as on XP 32 and 64 using ssh-host-config without any
> problems. There muyst have been some satrange side-effect on your
> machine.
>
> If you're willing to experiment, I'd suggest to remove the sshd-service,
> as well as the sshd and sshd_server user accounts entirely. Also remove
> /etc/ssh* and /var/empty. Then start ssh-host-config again and see what
> happens. Afterwards you can check with editrights again if everything's
> correctly set up. If not, and if the script didn't bail out with
>
> Assigning the appropriate privileges to user 'sshd_server' failed!
> Can't create sshd service!
>
> there's a bug in the script. Otherwise, if you got the above error
> message, it might be interesting to learn why this happens. OTOH, if
> the scipt runs fine this time, well, *shrug*.
>
> > If I get the chance, I'll delete the sshd_server user from that system
> > and re-run the ssh-host-config script to see what privileges it assigns
> > to sshd_server.
>
> Oh, hmm, I wrote the above before reading further in your mail... :)
I do recall having something similarly wrong with the ssh-host-config 
when I was working at a client's site a while back. Something, IIRC, to 
do with domain policies overriding local policies such that when trying 
to ssh into the server I was receiving similar behavior (i.e. /bin/bash: 
permission denied). I queried a few times here but never worked out the 
problem and ended up using rsh instead. I no longer have access to the 
client's site however. Could it be something like this in your situation 
too?
--
Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
A flying saucer results when a nudist spills his coffee.


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